Our dirty foods (Kingsolver)
February 16th, 2008 | Published in Agriculture, Food, Language, Quotes, Culture
Our words for unhealthy contamination—“soiled” or “dirty”—suggest that if we really knew the number-one ingredient of a garden, we’d all head straight into therapy.
—Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (HarperCollins: 2007), p. 10.